Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle evidently is calling the turn on timing. He also apparently is going to get his way about putting off until sometime next spring a subsequent East-West summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
Like love triangles throughout history, Russia's recent flirtation with the West has resulted in jealousy and political temper-tantrums on the part of China. The atrocities in Tibet, squabbles with India, denunciations of the U.A.R. and Yugoslavia are the embarrassing and peevish actions of a self-righteous and somewhat neglected power...
...past three or four years, the flow of information from the Soviet Union to the West has be- come much easier in many respects...
...year of awakening for the West, a year when the United States and its allies finally realized that the war with the Axis powers had been succeeded almost immediately by a more subtle struggle with Soviet Russia. Signs of this awakerning included Winston Churchill's phrase "the Iron Curtain," first used in his speech at Fulton, Missouri late in 1946, and the President's response to the Communist challenge in Greece and and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine...
...obtain the compilations of Ministerial decrees. This access was cut off in Stalin's tightening up of 1949 and 1950, and has not yet been restored, although individual decrees are now available. Since about 1956, there has been a "greater flow of materials" from the Soviet Union to the West, Fainsod says. But very often, however, the key documents come through fortuitous accidents, like the Smolensk archives Fainsod used for his Smolensk under Soviet Rule. These documents were captured intact by Nazi forces invading the U.S.S.R. during the Second World...